Bird News Tuesday 27th August

Yesterday a juvenile Mediterranean Gull was at Marconi’s Cottage,Ballycastle –a different bird to the one about 10 days ago. (Colin Guy).

Also yesterday evening 40 House Martin went south at Ballysillan Playing fields in Belfast (Andy Elliott).

Thanks to today's photographers, to Mervyn Campbell for another picture from yesterday of the Osprey at Lough Beg, to Ian Jackson for the picture of the female Bullfinch, to David Hill for the pictures of the Greenshank, Redshank and Black-tailed Godwit and to Alistair Prentice for the picture of the juvenile Blackbird feeding on berries. You can see more NI bird pictures at www.nibirdpics.blogspot.co.uk